The Philosophy Test

René Descartes

Your philosopher is René Descartes (March 31, 1596  February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, who worked as a philosopher and mathematician. He is equally notable for both his groundbreaking work in philosophy and mathematics. As the inventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, he formulated the basis of modern geometry (analytic geometry), which in turn influenced the development of modern calculus.
Like Descartes, the basis for your understanding of the world is the self, your own though, the innate understanding of the nature of the world that reveals to you, with certainty, the underlying laws of nature and mathematics. You are sceptical of the senses and are first inclined to doubt, and then to reason your way to the correct analysis.

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Your philosopher is William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910), born in New York, philosopher, psychologist and one of the founders of the philosopher movement known as American pragmatism.
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Your philosopher is John Locke (August 29, 1632October 28, 1704), a 17th century philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology. An Englishman, Locke's notions of a "government with t... Read more

Your philosopher is Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677), named Baruch Spinoza by his synagogue elders. Along with René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz, he was one of the gre... Read more

Your philosopher is Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225  March 7, 1274), an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, who gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, whic... Read more

Your philosopher is Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889  April 29, 1951), an Austrian philosopher who contributed several groundbreaking works to modern philosophy, primarily on the foundations of l... Read more

Your philosopher is Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872  February 2, 1970), one of the most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and logicians of the modern age, working mostly in the 20th century.
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